served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration of his intention to become such; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof of such person's service in and honorable discharge from the United States Navy or Marine Corps;" and so much of an Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes," being chapter one hundred and thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, part one, page three hundred and ninety-two), reading as follows: "Any alien of the age of twentyone years and upward who may under existing law become a citizen of the United States, who has served or may hereafter serve for one enlistment of not less than four years in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and who has received therefrom an honorable discharge or an ordinary discharge, with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years in the Revenue-Cutter Service and received therefrom an honorable discharge or an ordinary discharge with recommendation for reenlistment, or who has completed four years of honorable service in the naval auxiliary service, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration of his intention to become such, and without proof of residence on shore, and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof from naval or revenue-cutter sources of such service: Provided, That an honorable discharge from the Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, or the Naval Auxiliary Service, or an ordinary discharge with recommendation for reenlistment, shall be accepted as proof of good moral character: Provided further, That any court which now has or may hereafter be given jurisdiction to naturalize aliens as citizens of the United States may immediately naturalize any alien applying under and furnishing the proof prescribed by the foregoing provisions"; and so much of section three of an Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part one, page six hundred and thirty), reading as follows: "That paragraph two of section four of an Act entitled 'An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,' approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended by adding, after the proviso in paragraph two of section four of said Act, the following: Provided further, That any person belonging to the class of persons authorized and qualified under existing law to become a citizen of the United States, who has resided constantly in the United States during a period of five years next preceding May first, nineteen hundred and ten, who, because of misinformation in regard to his citizenship or the requirements of the law governing the naturalization of citizens has labored and acted under the impression that he was or could become a citizen of the United States and has in good faith exercised the rights or duties of a citizen or intended

citizen of the United States because of such wrongful information and belief may, upon making a showing of such facts satisfactory to a court having jurisdiction to issue papers of naturalization to an alien, and the court in its judgment believes that such person has been for a period of more than five years entitled upon proper proceedings to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, receive from the said court a final certificate of naturalization, and said court may issue such certificate without requiring proof of former declaration by or on part of such person of their intention to become a citizen of the United States, but such applicant for naturalization shall comply in all other respects with the law relative to the issuance of final papers of naturalization to aliens.'

That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed; but nothing in this Act shall repeal or in any way enlarge section twenty-one hundred and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes, except as specified in the seventh subdivision of this Act and under the limitation therein defined: Provided, That for the purposes of the prosecution of all crimes and offenses against the naturalization laws of the United States which may have been committed prior to this Act the statutes and laws hereby repealed shall remain in full force and effect: Provided further, That as to all aliens who, prior to January first, nineteen hundred, served in the Armies of the United States and were honorably discharged therefrom, section twenty-one hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall be and remain in full force and effect, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3. That all certificates of naturalization granted by courts of competent jurisdiction prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, upon petitions for naturalization filed prior to January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, upon declarations of intention filed prior to September twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, are hereby declared to be valid in so far as the declaration of intention is concerned, but shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized.

The word "District" in sections four, ten, and twenty-seven of the Act which this Act amends is hereby amended to read "the District of Columbia."

Approved, May 9, 1918.

EXECUTIVE ORDER..

N. 3008]

Excepting certain persons from the classication of “alien enemy" for the purpose of permitting them to apply for Laturalization. Whereas the Act of Congress approved May 9, 1913, entitled "An act to amend the naturalination laws and to repel sextain sections of the Revised Starmtes of the United States and other laws relating to natpralization, and for other purposes." provided in part as follows: *Eleven. No alien who is a tative citizen, stjere, or denizen of any comity, State, or sovereignty with which the Tared States is at war sh be admitted to become a citizen of the United States declaration of intention not less than two or more that seven years prior to the existence of the state of war, or was at that time entitled to become Less be mode bik a citizen of the United States without making a declaration of intention, or unless his petition for naturalization shall then be pending and is otherwise entitled to admission, notwithstanding he shall be an allen enemy at the time and in the manner prescribed by the laws passed upon that subject: Provided. That no alien embraced within this subdiviskn shall have his petition for naturalization called for a hearing, or heard, except after ninety days' notice given by the clerk of the court to the Commissioner or Depaty Commissioner of Naturalization to be present, and the petition shall be given no final hearing except in open court and after such notice to the repre sentative of the Government from the Bureau of Naturalization, whose objec tion shall cause the petition to be continued from time to time for so long as the Government may require: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed to interfere with or prevent the apprebension and removal, agreeably to law, of any alien enemy at any time previous to the actual naturalization of such alien; and section twenty-one hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed: Provided further, That the President of the United States may, in his discre tion, upon investigation and report by the Department of Justice fully establishing the loyalty of any alien enemy not included in the foregoing exemp tion, except such alien enemy from the classification of alien enemy, and thereupon he shall have the privilege of applying for naturalization; ere

Now, therefore, for the purpose defined in said section, in the exercise of the discretion so vested in me, I do hereby direct that there be excepted from the classification of "alion enemy" all persons whom, after investigation and report by the Department of Justice, the Attorney General shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of Labor as persons loyal to the United States.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

26 November, 1918,

WOODROW WILSON.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION No. 11 66 CONGRESS.]

Joint Resolution authorising the Horretary of Labor to lease the Charleston immigration station and dock connected therewith.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Hecretary of Laber is authorized, in his discretion, to lens for other than governments purposes the property known as the Charleston immigration station. with the improvements thereon; and and Societary shall fix the amount of rental per annum to be paid therefor, which rental shall be a fair and just sum for property of like chururia, situation, and value and prescribe such conditions regarding the mom to be made of ssid

property as he shall deem proper: Provided, That all expenses of maintenance and repairs on the building and dock at said station shall be borne by the lessee or lessees: Provided further, That any lease executed under this resolution may be terminated and the property reoccupied under such conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe. Approved, August 15, 1919.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 27-66TH CONGRESS.]

[S. J. Res. 131.]

Joint Resolution Making immediately available the appropriation for the expenses of regulating further the entry of aliens into the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the sum of $600,000 appropriated by section 4 of Public Act Numbered 79 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, entitled "An Act to regulate further the entry of aliens into the United States," as may be necessary is hereby made immediately available for expenses of regulating entry into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918: Provided, That not more than $450,000 of said sum shall be used during the remainder of the fiscal year 1920. Approved, December 24, 1919.

EXTRACT FROM PUBLIC LAW 21.

NATURALIZATION SERVICE.

For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June 29, 1906, as amended by the Act approved March 4, 1913 (Statutes at Large, volume 37, page 736), and May 9, 1918 (Statutes at Large, volume 40, pages 542 to 548, inclusive), including not to exceed $50,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $7,000 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into effect section 13 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 765), and in accordance with the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act of June 12, 1917; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $450,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts.

Any person of foreign birth who served in the military or naval forces of the United States during the present war, after final exami nation and acceptance by the said military or naval authorities, and shall have been honorably discharged after such acceptance and serv ice, shall have the benefits of the seventh subdivision of section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906, Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 596, as amended, and shall not be required to pay any fee therefor; and this provision shall continue for the period of one year after all of the American troops are returned to the United States. [PUBLIC-NO. 79-66TH CONGRESS.] [HI. R. 9782.]

An Act To regulate further the entry of aliens into the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if the President shall find that the public safety requires that restrictions and prohibitions in addition to those provided otherwise than by this Act be imposed upon the entry of aliens into the United States, and shall make public proclamation thereof, it shall, until otherwise ordered by the President or Congress, be unlawful

(a) For any alien to enter or attempt to enter the United States except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such passport, visé, or other limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe;

(b) For any person to transport or attempt to transport into the United States another person with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the entry of such other person is forbidden by this Act. (c) For any person knowingly to make any false statement in an application for a passport or other permission to enter the United States with intent to induce or secure the granting of such permission, either for himself or for another;

(d) For any person knowingly to furnish or attempt to furnish or assist in furnishing to another a visced passport or other permit or evidence of permission to enter, not issued and designed for such other person's use;

(e) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use any viséed passport or other permit or evidence of permission to enter ou issued and designed for his use;

(f) For any person to forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered. any passport, visé or other permit or evidence of permission to exter

the United States;

(g) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use or furnish to another for use any false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport, permit, or evidence of permission, or any pass port, permit, or evidence of permission which, though originally SEC. 2. That any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this Act, or of any order or proclamation of the President promulgated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued therea natural person, imprisoned for not more than five years, or both: under, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or, if participates in such violation shall be punished by like fine or imand the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly

valid, has become or been made void or invalid,